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Gynecology, his first medical love, made him a throat specialist. Laryngology made him a bacteriologist. Although he has done great work in the fight against all diseases, his pride is his anti-diphtheria record. Before his introduction of diphtheria antitoxin to the U. S. there were 150 diphtheria deaths per 100,000 of population each year, or about 600 deaths per 100,000 children. New York City used to have 100 deaths a week during the diphtheria season. During the last month, the community has had only four...
...operating room is silent except for the clink of instruments on the porcelain-topped table and the voice of the surgeon, muffled through a gauze mouth bandage, calling sharply for instruments. A bronchoscope, a long mirrored tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever...
Next it was ABC's turn. Last week in the Almendares district of Havana two U. S. tourists discovered the body of Policeman Francisco Rafael Cepero with his ear cut off, his throat slashed, a bullet in his temple. Tied to his right wrist was a blue tag inscribed: "The ABC will mete out this death to all long-tongued persons." Long-tongued Cepero's crime had been to shout a warning to Chief of Police Major Arsenic Ortiz (who got his present job after being accused with two others of 44 political murders in Santiago) when three...
Chicago's militant Obstetrician Joseph Bolivar DeLee, founder of remarkably sanitary Chicago Lying-in Hospital, last week threw the morbid facts into Medicine's teeth,* tamped them down Medicine's throat with the heavily honest Journal of the American Medical Association. Roared Dr. DeLee: "Evidence enough to convince any jury of husbands or any committee of life insurance adjusters. . . . The general hospital is a veritable cesspool of infection. . . . Meddlesome midwifery and puerperal infection seem to cause the greater part of the mortality, either singly or in combination. . . . Meddlesome midwifery must be abated or made safe. Something...
...home in his surroundings. He gives out a few aphorisms left over from his performances as Charlie Chan and wears his hair in a braid so long that it serves as a queue for the most exciting scene in the picture-when Helen Hayes wraps it around his throat and pulls it tight...